Youcat commented through CCC - Question n. 66 - Part II.

YOUCAT Question n. 66 - Part II. Was it part of God’s plan for men to suffer and die?

(Youcat answer - repeated) God does not want men to suffer and die. God’s original idea for man was paradise: life forever and peace between God and man and their environment, between man and woman.       

A deepening through CCC

(CCC 377) The "mastery" over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realized above all within man himself: mastery of self. The first man was unimpaired and ordered in his whole being because he was free from the triple concupiscence (Cf. I Jn 2:16) that subjugates him to the pleasures of the senses, covetousness for earthly goods, and self-assertion, contrary to the dictates of reason.      

Reflecting and meditating 

(Youcat comment) Often we sense how life ought to be, how we ought to be, but in fact we do not live in peace with ourselves, act out of fear and uncontrolled emotions, and have lost the original harmony that man had with the world and ultimately with God. In Sacred Scripture the experience of this alienation is expressed in the story of the Fall. Because sin crept in, Adam and Eve had to leave paradise, in which they were in harmony with each other and with God. The toil of work, suffering, mortality, and the temptation to sin are signs of this loss of paradise.  

(CCC Comment)

(CCC 378) The sign of man's familiarity with God is that God places him in the garden (Cf. Gen 2:8). There he lives "to till it and keep it". Work is not yet a burden  (Gen 2:15; cf. 3:17-19), but rather the collaboration of man and woman with God in perfecting the visible creation.        

(This question:  Was it part of God’s plan for men to suffer and die? is continued)